Drew Ames wrote: > On 09/05/2012 11:06 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> Drew Ames wrote: >>> It seems that the simplest solution would be to build coreutils-8.15 >>> or some other version prior to 8.18. Run configure and make, then >>> copy the uninstalled version to /tools/bin/su: 'cp src/su >>> /tools/bin' >>> >>> Until somebody can figure out why the shadow su is behaving >>> differently, the above option seems to be a good one. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> Old versions of the pkg-user hint have sources for a trivial su program >> that does everything necessary for current versions of the hint as well; >> it only changes from root to a user, but that's enough. That seems >> simpler than trying to hang onto an old version of coreutils and build >> pieces of it, or building pieces of shadow, at least to me. :-) >> > Hi Bryan and John, > > I just got back from a vacation where I didn't go online for a number of > days (yay!). > > So, I'm just now getting back to this thread. > > Bryan, would you please point me to the older versions of the package > users hint helpers with the trivial su program? I can't seem to find > them anywhere.
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/browser/trunk/PREVIOUS_FORMAT/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt?rev=904 (Starting at line 802.) Note that some of that code is no longer necessary, since we now install glibc in chapter 5 as well, but it shouldn't hurt as far as I can see. If you install su without the setuid bit, then it can be built from really really dumb sources. :-) > I'm presuming it was written in C. Is that right? Yep.
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